Tag: Music

Dard Neuman

Dard Neuman Dard Neuman is the Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music and Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2004, he joined the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. He has studied the sitar for almost…
Karlton Hester

Karlton Hester Karlton E. Hester, Ph.D. (composer/flutist/saxophonist), began his career as a composer and recording artist in Los Angeles where he worked as a studio musician and music educator. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York Graduate Center and is currently Director of “Jazz” Studies (and member of the…
Linda Burman-Hall

Linda Burman-Hall Linda Burman-Hall’s research centers on performance practices and improvisation in selected Western and non-Western musics. She is active not only as a musicologist-performer specializing in Baroque and classical literature for early keyboards, but also as an ethnomusicologist of Euro-American and Indonesian traditional musics. She is interested in relating regional styles and fashions in…
Ben Leeds Carson

Ben Leeds Carson Ben Leeds Carson’s music is performed at wide-ranging venues for experimental music, including at SUNY Buffalo’s 2023 Visiting Artist Series, Blurred Edges (Hamburg 2020); the Smithsonian Institute’s Meyer Series (Washington DC 2019); the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva (Mexico City 2018). Ben Carson has been an Artist/Researcher-in-Residence for the Perception Laboratory at…
Tanya Merchant

Tanya Merchant Tanya Merchant is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include music’s intersection with issues of nationalism, gender, identity, and the post-colonial situation. With a geographical focus on Central Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Balkans, she has conducted fieldwork in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an avid performer on…
Nelsen Hutchison

Nelsen Hutchison Nelsen Hutchison grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where he began playing guitar and developing an eclectic taste for music at a young age. He went on to pursue his musical education by studying jazz guitar at Berklee College of Music before transferring to the New School for Jazz where he…
Bruce Kiesling

Bruce Kiesling Active in a wide variety of music, Bruce has a national profile as a conductor and music educator from coast to coast, from classical repertoire at Carnegie Hall to the stage of the Hollywood Bowl conducting with Stevie Wonder and Latin superstars Juanes and Gloria Estefan. His current Music Director positions include the…
Keshav Batish

Keshav Batish Keshav Batish is a multi-instrumentalist music-maker, whose work expresses networks of sonic kinship through dialogue across cultures, with emphasis on Afro-Asian diasporic interrelationships. He is a hereditary practitioner of South Asian musics, trained by his father Pt. Ashwin Batish. In addition, he has studied with Creative Music makers such as Hafez Modirzadeh and…
Monica Ambalal

Monica Ambalal Monica Ambalal was born and raised in Stockton, CA and began her academic career at San Joaquin Delta College before continuing on to receive: a BA from the University of New Orleans, an MA in Musicology from CSU Long Beach, an MA in Ethnomusicology from UC Davis (and soon a Phd from UC…
Ohal Greitzer

Ohal Greitzer Ohal is a composer, performer and mixed-media artist, working across a wide range of contexts including film scoring, sound installation and research. Their work is concerned with consciousness, and its inherent vulnerabilities and sequential failures as it vacillates between forces of causation and chaos. Featured in WIRE and Fader Magazine for their solo…